Still having a few problems:
Using this function:
setprop view_Utf8 someUtf8
put the text_Field of me into textField
put uniencode(someUtf8, "UTF8") into someU16
set the unicodetext of textField to someU16
end view_Utf8
and getting UTF8 from the XML file (an assumption), I get results lik:
gustavb\u00f6hm
which should be a nice german name :)